Great company, be prepared to bring your A game. - Director eBay Employee Review

4.0
Jan 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

It's a great company full of talented people. The entire org is changing right now and there is a lot of enthusiasm among (new) leaders. Chief Product Officer, CEO-designate, head of design. Great stuff and HUGE assets that haven't been leveraged nearly as much as they should.

Cons

Management does not like being questioned too much. The plan is the plan as far as they are concerned and they seem to also not be ok with bad news. Or failure. It happens, and it shouldn't be something people need to be ashamed of. Also there is a culture of needing to be gray-haired to hold VP title.

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5.0
Jul 21, 2026
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Pros

1. Upgrading the technologies as per the needs 2. People in the team are awesome, humble and helps out without any hesitation

Cons

Nothing much about the team

5.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging work, great company culture. There is something genuinely motivating about building for a brand that everyone knows and uses: the scale and real-world stakes make the work feel meaningful. The AI work specifically is at the frontier of applied AI: production systems, hard problems in agentic workflows and evaluation, and real customer impact. Good work-life balance. Leadership is more engaged and technically credible than I expected from a company this size — when I built a prototype, senior stakeholders engaged substantively and supported continued investment quickly. Competitive compensation, sharp colleagues, and a well-sized Austin office with a focused, collaborative feel.

Cons

Like any tech company, there is some legacy code to deal with which can cause friction. That said, eBay has made meaningful progress on modernizing the tech stack and has genuinely embraced the latest tools: AI development here uses current frameworks and infrastructure, not decade-old patterns. Large company coordination processes (security reviews, cross-team alignment) can slow things that could move faster, and vendor partnerships add some communication overhead. But the reach of what you build makes it worth the extra overhead.

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